Person
Peter Schweizer
Author of Throw Them All Out; a fellow at the Hoover Institution when 60 Minutes aired its 2011 report.
Connections 2
worked at
- Hoover Institution 2011 fellow Scholarship & press 1
authored
- Throw Them All Out 2011 Scholarship & press 12
Timeline 2 dates
- 2011 Peter Schweizer worked at Hoover Institution
- 2011 Peter Schweizer authored Throw Them All Out
Proof 2 sources
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Congress: Trading stock on inside information? (script of “Insiders”, 60 Minutes), CBS News, 13 Nov 2011.
Scholarship & press
Peter Schweizer is a fellow at the Hoover Institution, a conservative think tank at Stanford University.
A year ago he began working on a book about soft corruption in Washington with a team of eight student researchers, who reviewed financial disclosure records.
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Capitol Losses: The Mediocre Performance of Congressional Stock Portfolios, 2004-2008 (working paper, December 2011), Authors’ working paper, hosted at MIT, 2 Dec 2011.
Scholarship & press
A recently-published and widely-discussed book (Schweizer; 2011) recounts dozens of examples of members of Congress making profitable stock trades while in possession of non-public information about policies affecting companies in their portfolios.
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